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It's what he asked for, it's what the Secretary of Defense asked for, it passed the Senate with veto proof majority and an almost veto proof majority in the House. This amounts to an agreement between all parties.
He vetoed it because of unrelated bills. Instead of compromising on them he is using this as leverage to get what he wants.
This is one of the reasons we have such gridlock in Washington, you can't even get something everyone agrees upon into law.
The funding level is exactly what he requested. He wants more domestic spending and apparently there is a provision in this bill that has existed for quite some time that prevents him from closing Gitmo. That is also something that will have bipartisan support.
President Obama on Thursday took the rare step of vetoing a major defense policy bill, upping the stakes in a faceoff with Republicans over government spending.
Obama used his veto pen on the National Defense Authorization Act during a photo-op in Oval Office with a BIG photo op that nobody even noticed. It's all Ho-Hum at this point, the public can't even be bothered with the Staged Kabuki Dance anymore.
“I’m going to be vetoing this authorization bill. I’m going to be sending it back to Congress, and my message to them is very simple: Let’s do this right,” Obama said.
Wow. For a second I thought The Hill had gone way downhill, but it was just a case of quoting dishonestly.
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